The main client is free to download now but there's still the monthly sub. I'm looking to jump back in at some point before March on my 360 just to nab up all the achievements lol but also I really, really would like to get a new working PC so I can properly play through Seekers of Adoulin & Rasphodies of Vana'diel (the game's big finale). FF14 is their new big ticket MMO and it's good, but it sadly follows the same tired rotation of introducing yet more stuff to grind for every 3 months which is why I stopped giving a damn about the endgame and cancelled my sub - I only come back for the story and to say hi to people. Tanaka's not even with Square-Enix anymore and Yoshida is partly in charge of XI along with Producing and Directing XIV so yah no chance of ever going back to the good old days unless something changes in the market. It's actually worse in XIV than in Destiny since at least with Destiny, the gear is actually different and does different things - the only thing that changes in FF14 are the looks and higher stats (whereas 11 had all kinds of stuff that enhanced various job abilities). I really sorely miss games like XI that had a big emphasis on teamwork and open world content that was ever-expanding - if you didn't like or couldn't do 1 thing there was *always* an alternative. I'm sick of this "theme park" crap that MMOs are doing now. Was one of the things driving me to be a game dev actually but that kinda fell flat for me :/ turns out I really hate computer science. /end rambling